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Multi-Antenna Relay Aided Wireless Physical Layer Security

Information Theory 2016-11-18 v1 math.IT

Abstract

With growing popularity of mobile Internet, providing secure wireless services has become a critical issue. Physical layer security (PHY-security) has been recognized as an effective means to enhance wireless security by exploiting wireless medium characteristics, e.g., fading, noise, and interference. A particularly interesting PHY-security technology is cooperative relay due to the fact that it helps to provide distributed diversity and shorten access distance. This article offers a tutorial on various multi-antenna relaying technologies to improve security at physical layer. The state of the art research results on multi-antenna relay aided PHY-security as well as some secrecy performance optimization schemes are presented. In particular, we focus on large-scale MIMO (LS-MIMO) relaying technology, which is effective to tackle various challenging issues for implementing wireless PHY-security, such as short-distance interception without eavesdropper channel state information (CSI) and with imperfect legitimate CSI. Moreover, the future directions are identified for further enhancement of secrecy performance.

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@article{arxiv.1504.02980,
  title  = {Multi-Antenna Relay Aided Wireless Physical Layer Security},
  author = {Xiaoming Chen and Caijun Zhong and Chau Yuen and Hsiao-Hwa Chen},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.02980},
  year   = {2016}
}

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17 pages, 4 figures, IEEE Communications Magazine, 2015

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